Junior database administrator Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Location :

2721 N Central Ave, Phoenix, Arizona 85036 United States of America

Oxford Life Insurance Company was founded in 1965 and is a member of AMERCO, a publicly traded financial holding network. AMERCO's other significant holdings including U-Haul International and Republic Western Insurance Company. Our fast paced, growing company is seeking eager, qualified, customer-centric individuals to join our team in Phoenix, AZ.

Job Overview :

Oxford Life Insurance is looking for a SQL Database Administrator to be responsible for working with a team of Web Developers. In this challenging role you will be responsible for comprehensively overseeing projects, designing and developing web architecture, and guiding and mentoring a team. In exchange, this rewarding position comes with excellent benefits.

To be successful as a DBA, you should be comfortable working within a team, have a keen eye for detail, and have excellent organizational skills. Ultimately, a top-notch DBA should have strong technical qualities, be able to provide guidance and support, and be highly accurate.

The SQL team does end to end care of a large-scale enterprise MS SQL Servers.

Assist the application teams and developers with requests for anything from new users / roles, to standing up an entire new clustered instance, which is fully compliant with security standards.

Actively support our internal IT teams as well as our vendors performing regular maintenance / patching for a wide variety of MS SQL server deployment.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Understanding and familiarity with WCF, and web service development using the .Net platform with VB.Net, C# and XML., experience with C# and VB.NET 4.0, XML, WCF, and business to business integration using SOAP or REST, as well as knowledge of Domain Driven Development, Service Oriented Architectures, and experience in backend service development will be helpful.

Monitor performance and health; complete regular internal system audits; prepare for upgrades; implement changes; and apply patches when required. Design and maintain reports to monitor the health, use deduplication tools to scrub duplicate data from the database, and use Apex tests, field utilization reports. Troubleshooting application key selection, creation of appropriate indexes, and queries as needed.

Responsibilities

• Managing SQL Server & Database access
• Monitor and respond to SQL server performance degradation
• Make optimization recommendations to SQL queries
• Troubleshoot issues with applications connecting to SQL databases
• Perform SQL server and database maintenance
• Monitor database backups
• Respond to capacity issues on database servers
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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Here are just some of the programs U-Haul has available :

U-Haul Holding Company, and its family of companies including U-Haul International, Inc. ("U-Haul"), continually strives to create a culture of health and wellness. Consistent with applicable state law, U-Haul will not hire or re-hire individuals who use nicotine products. The states in which U-Haul will decline to hire nicotine users are : Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. U-Haul has observed this hiring practice since February 1, 2020 as part of our commitment to a healthy work environment for our team.

U-Haul is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, provincial, state or local law. Individual accommodations are available on requests for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Information obtained during this process will only be shared on a need to know basis.